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Childhood in Plumton

Back in Sussex, we lived at Plumpton, north west of Eastbourne. Because the Germans found Beachy Head to be...

My Own War

A Royal Air Force Balloon Barrage hangar was built alongside the Raynesway arterial road, and anti-aircraft...

Memories of My Uncle John's War by Sheila Moorby (Nee Lea)

My Father looked down the street and said "It's a telegram". My Mother said "I bet it's...

Life in London

The council had its own way of sending messages to say that German planes were getting near. As the Germans...

A Near Miss for Me.

They were both working at the Vickers Armstrong aircraft factory at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey....

World War II Memories on the Isle of Wight

In exchange the boys would bring down some of their rations sugar, tea, chocolate and sometimes even...

Reminiscences

I was playing cowboys and indians and took a flying leap over the back of the settee and landed both feet...

Maria's War

At the out brake of Second World War I was just over five years old, and living in a town called...

Wartime Life on a Gloucestershire Farm

Dad's Uncle Gus from Cirencester used to visit each week and he used to watch the planes and one day he...

The Forties to 2005

Poems I have written have been broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio and are on view at the Petwood Hotel, Thorpe Camp,...

Keeping things Going at Home

To help my mother and keep her company, her sister,Aunty Maggie, and her young daughter,my cousin Joyce,...

Arnham

This story I shall tell I can remember well Although it happen many years ago I met my Fred But now he...

Captured for Labour by the Russians

She too was later transported to Russia and on her release, when Russia joined the Allies, she rejoined the...

A Child's Memories of World War 2: Living in Manchester

My father's sister lived in Stockport and said that as she looked up Wellington Road towards Manchester...

Childhood in Wartime

I lived in Norwich throughout the war apart from ten weeks in Tharston after the blitz on Norwich. At...

Late Entry Evacuee

Sometimes dinner money would be spent at the bakers. For a long time we only attended school in the...

Watson Family Military Service

My father, John Watson was born in Leek signed onto The Royal Marines, under age, during World War 1. The...

Jean's Life in Manchester

The job was with CWS On Fairfield St. near Piccadilly in Manchester... By this time I was living in...

No Holds Barred

My dad, an ex Gallipoli veteran from W.W.1. rejoined the army and was sent to the Pacific Isles... My...

A Teenager in Wartime Sunderland

I will always remember the night a bomb landed on the railway station in Sunderland 鈥� the explosion...

鈥淒ON鈥橳 MENTION THE WAR!鈥�

We can all associate the famous phrase with TV funnyman John Cleese as Basil Fawlty but for the people and...

On Humber Bank

The area I lived in, Barton, was a comparatively small town but across the river was a larger town, Hove,...

Childhood Memories of the War

A few were found in the rugby pitch on Leicester Road, but the only bomb damage I saw, was when cycling to...

Brothers at War

His brother,Will,sailed on a troopship to the other side of the world.Their convoy was escorted by brave...

Anderson Shelter Birth

I was born on the 29th June 1944, at Bexleyheath in kent, opposite the trolly bus depot in Erith Rd where...

Child or Teenager in the war

Next Bish told me about air-raid shelters and one story about a women and her baby... Bish was bullied when...